Senior Staff Software Engineer, Backend (Consumer - Financial Services and Loyalty)

📋 Description

• Define and drive the technical vision and strategy for FS&L, ensuring systems achieve high throughput, low latency, and scale.
• Architect and build mission-critical financial systems (e.g., card processing, loan repayments) with a focus on funds flow, reconciliation, and invariants.
• Drive developer productivity by advocating for new tooling (Go, Temporal, K8, MongoDB) and AI adoption.
• Mentor and coach team members to foster growth and technical excellence.
• Partner with Product/Engineering leaders to align on long-term product and engineering strategy.
• Lead the creation of reusable platforms for adoption across Coinbase.

🎯 Requirements

• 10+ years of software engineering experience in large-scale distributed systems.
• Deep expertise in payments or traditional finance.
• Demonstrated experience in architecting and building high-throughput, low-latency financial systems that can handle $500M monthly processing volumes.
• Strong understanding of funds flow, reconciliation, and invariants.
• Proven ability to lead complex, cross-organizational initiatives and drive architectural cohesion.
• Strong mentoring skills and a passion for leveling up teammates.

🎁 Benefits

• Remote-first culture; in-person participation required; offsites several times a year.
• In-person collaboration supported; attendance encouraged.
• Bonus and equity eligibility; medical, dental, vision, and 401(k) benefits.
• Mentorship and opportunities to lead cross-organizational initiatives.